This is your chance to increase avalanche awareness

The Vancouver branch of the Alpine Club of Canada is holding its annual Jared Stanley Memorial Mountain Safety Lecture Wed., Nov. 28.

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The Canadian Avalanche Centre is encouraging resorts across the province to hold Avalanche Awareness Days in the week upcoming, and it looks like most of them are happy to oblige.

Though avalanche training certification courses are not difficult to come by (visit canadianavalanchecentre.ca or mec.ca for a schedule of courses in the future across B.C. and at Mountain Equipment Co-Op stores), these are a all free and designed for general public awareness.

• Whistler Blackcomb Avalanche Awareness Days

Events take place Jan. 19 and 20, 2013, featuring free avalanche awareness tours at 10 a.m. and 12 noon, Saturday and Sunday. Participants leave from the Avalanche Education Centre on Blackcomb Mountain near the Rendezvous. The events include demonstrations with avalanche dog teams and talks with park rangers and avalanche guides. For details contact richardofwhistler@hotmail.com

• Mount Seymour Provincial Park will be the site of BC Parks and AdventureSmart 's Avalanche Awareness Days, Jan. 19 to 20, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Technical experts will be on site and participants can get educated with transceiver training, a transceiver search challenge, avalanche dog demonstrations (Jan. 20 only) and avalanche gear demonstrations. It'll all happen at BC Parks kiosk beside parking lot 44. For more information: teamcoordinator@adventuresmart.caor Robert.w.wilson@gov.bc.ca

There will be dozens of Avalanche Awareness days across B.C., western Alberta and Northwest Territories. For information go here.

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